The school holidays are great for spending quality time with the kids (if they still want to be seen with you !) and an awesome excuse...

It’s notoriously difficult for tradies to compete, because other trade businesses out there slash their prices and often do cashies....

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I received a call recently from a regular client who wanted to apologise for declining our latest quote. He had been hounded relentlessly...

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Charge-up Thinking through your charge up terms & conditions I have heard about a lot of work being completed on charge up lately, not...